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<p>
      The class templates in <a href="../../../../../boost/integer/static_min_max.hpp" target="_top">&lt;boost/integer/static_min_max.hpp&gt;</a>
      provide a compile-time evaluation of the minimum or maximum of two integers.
      These facilities are useful for generic programming problems.
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<pre class="programlisting"><span class="keyword">namespace</span> <span class="identifier">boost</span>
<span class="special">{</span>

<span class="keyword">typedef</span> <span class="emphasis"><em>implementation-defined</em></span> <span class="identifier">static_min_max_signed_type</span><span class="special">;</span>
<span class="keyword">typedef</span> <span class="emphasis"><em>implementation-defined</em></span> <span class="identifier">static_min_max_unsigned_type</span><span class="special">;</span>

<span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="identifier">static_min_max_signed_type</span> <span class="identifier">Value1</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">static_min_max_signed_type</span> <span class="identifier">Value2</span> <span class="special">&gt;</span>
    <span class="keyword">struct</span> <span class="identifier">static_signed_min</span><span class="special">;</span>

<span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="identifier">static_min_max_signed_type</span> <span class="identifier">Value1</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">static_min_max_signed_type</span> <span class="identifier">Value2</span><span class="special">&gt;</span>
    <span class="keyword">struct</span> <span class="identifier">static_signed_max</span><span class="special">;</span>

<span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="identifier">static_min_max_unsigned_type</span> <span class="identifier">Value1</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">static_min_max_unsigned_type</span> <span class="identifier">Value2</span><span class="special">&gt;</span>
    <span class="keyword">struct</span> <span class="identifier">static_unsigned_min</span><span class="special">;</span>

<span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="identifier">static_min_max_unsigned_type</span> <span class="identifier">Value1</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">static_min_max_unsigned_type</span> <span class="identifier">Value2</span><span class="special">&gt;</span>
    <span class="keyword">struct</span> <span class="identifier">static_unsigned_max</span><span class="special">;</span>

<span class="special">}</span>
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<p>
        The four class templates provide the combinations for finding the minimum
        or maximum of two <code class="literal">signed</code> or <code class="literal">unsigned</code>
        (<code class="literal">long</code>) parameters, <span class="emphasis"><em>Value1</em></span> and <span class="emphasis"><em>Value2</em></span>,
        at compile-time. Each template has a single static data member, <code class="literal">value</code>,
        which is set to the respective minimum or maximum of the template's parameters.
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<pre class="programlisting"><span class="preprocessor">#include</span> <span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">integer</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">static_min_max</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">hpp</span><span class="special">&gt;</span>

<span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special">&lt;</span> <span class="keyword">unsigned</span> <span class="keyword">long</span> <span class="identifier">AddendSize1</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="keyword">unsigned</span> <span class="keyword">long</span> <span class="identifier">AddendSize2</span> <span class="special">&gt;</span>
<span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">adder</span>
<span class="special">{</span>
<span class="keyword">public</span><span class="special">:</span>
    <span class="keyword">static</span>  <span class="keyword">unsigned</span> <span class="keyword">long</span>  <span class="keyword">const</span>  <span class="identifier">addend1_size</span> <span class="special">=</span> <span class="identifier">AddendSize1</span><span class="special">;</span>
    <span class="keyword">static</span>  <span class="keyword">unsigned</span> <span class="keyword">long</span>  <span class="keyword">const</span>  <span class="identifier">addend2_size</span> <span class="special">=</span> <span class="identifier">AddendSize2</span><span class="special">;</span>
    <span class="keyword">static</span>  <span class="keyword">unsigned</span> <span class="keyword">long</span>  <span class="keyword">const</span>  <span class="identifier">sum_size</span> <span class="special">=</span> <span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">static_unsigned_max</span><span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="identifier">AddendSize1</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">AddendSize2</span><span class="special">&gt;::</span><span class="identifier">value</span> <span class="special">+</span> <span class="number">1</span><span class="special">;</span>

    <span class="keyword">typedef</span> <span class="keyword">int</span>  <span class="identifier">addend1_type</span><span class="special">[</span> <span class="identifier">addend1_size</span> <span class="special">];</span>
    <span class="keyword">typedef</span> <span class="keyword">int</span>  <span class="identifier">addend2_type</span><span class="special">[</span> <span class="identifier">addend2_size</span> <span class="special">];</span>
    <span class="keyword">typedef</span> <span class="keyword">int</span>  <span class="identifier">sum_type</span><span class="special">[</span> <span class="identifier">sum_size</span> <span class="special">];</span>

    <span class="keyword">void</span>  <span class="keyword">operator</span> <span class="special">()(</span> <span class="identifier">addend1_type</span> <span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="special">&amp;</span><span class="identifier">a1</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">addend2_type</span> <span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="special">&amp;</span><span class="identifier">a2</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">sum_type</span> <span class="special">&amp;</span><span class="identifier">s</span> <span class="special">)</span> <span class="keyword">const</span><span class="special">;</span>
<span class="special">};</span>

<span class="comment">//...</span>

<span class="keyword">int</span> <span class="identifier">main</span><span class="special">()</span>
<span class="special">{</span>
    <span class="keyword">int</span> <span class="keyword">const</span>   <span class="identifier">a1</span><span class="special">[]</span> <span class="special">=</span> <span class="special">{</span> <span class="number">0</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="number">4</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="number">3</span> <span class="special">};</span>  <span class="comment">// 340</span>
    <span class="keyword">int</span> <span class="keyword">const</span>   <span class="identifier">a2</span><span class="special">[]</span> <span class="special">=</span> <span class="special">{</span> <span class="number">9</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="number">8</span> <span class="special">};</span>     <span class="comment">//  89</span>
    <span class="keyword">int</span>         <span class="identifier">s</span><span class="special">[</span> <span class="number">4</span> <span class="special">];</span>
    <span class="identifier">adder</span><span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="number">3</span><span class="special">,</span><span class="number">2</span><span class="special">&gt;</span>  <span class="identifier">obj</span><span class="special">;</span>

    <span class="identifier">obj</span><span class="special">(</span> <span class="identifier">a1</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">a2</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">s</span> <span class="special">);</span>  <span class="comment">// 's' should be 429 or { 9, 2, 4, 0 }</span>
    <span class="comment">//...</span>
<span class="special">}</span>
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<p>
        The program <a href="../../../test/static_min_max_test.cpp" target="_top">static_min_max_test.cpp</a>
        is a simplistic demonstration of various comparisons using the compile-time
        extrema class templates.
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<p>
        Sometimes the minimum or maximum of several values needs to be found for
        later compile-time processing, <span class="emphasis"><em>e.g.</em></span> for a bound for
        another class template.
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<p>
        The author of the Boost compile-time extrema class templates is <a href="https://www.boost.org/people/daryle_walker.html" target="_top">Daryle
        Walker</a>.
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